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The Real Truth About Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut, Her Royal Horus name was; Ma’at-ka-re which roughly translates to; “Goddess of Truth is the life force of the Sun ...
After her death, Hatshepsut’s names and representations such as statues were systematically erased from her monuments.
Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...
The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...
Egyptologists have long claimed the statuary of Hatshepsut in Luxor was wantonly destroyed, it may have been "ritually ...
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...
Hatshepsut. Thutmose II was sickly and Hatshepsut easily assumed a position of authority. When he died, the rule was passed to his young son, Thutmose III, who was the child of a royal consort.
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...
After Thutmose II’s death around 1479 BCE, his infant son, Thutmose III, inherited the throne—but true power rested in the hands of Hatshepsut, the boy’s stepmother and aunt.
At the end of Thutmose III’s reign, some 20 years after Hatshepsut’s death, he carried out a large-scale campaign to remove or alter Hatshepsut’s names and images.
Re-assessment of damaged statues depicting the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut questions the prevailing view that they were ...